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| APULIAN RED-FIGURE AMPHORA BY THE SAMARCANDE PAINTER In an Ionic naiskos, a female bust three quarters to the left. Reverse: A female head to the right. Published: A.D. Trendall, The Red-figured Vases of Apulia, Suppl. II, 1992, no. 27/57g, pl. 81.5; J. Eisenberg, One Thousand Years of Ancient Greek Vases, 1990, no. 92. Ex Belgian collection; Patricia Kluge collection, Charlottesville, Virginia, acquired from Royal-Athena in 1991. Ca. 340 BC H. 21 in. (53.3 cm.) 1,000 Years of Ancient Greek Vases II, no. 120 PK0993K SOLD Please see further information below. |
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Unbroken. There is some minor erosion on the lower part of side B, and the area above the woman’s head on that side is misfired red. Like all Apulian amphoras, the shape is related to that of black-figure Panathenaic amphoras, the trophies full of oil given to victorious athletes at the Panathenaic Games at Athens. Characteristic are the tall stem above the foot and the very narrow neck. Such amphoras are occasionally found in South Italy in the tombs of athletes who traveled to Athens to compete. A large white laurel wreath circles the mouth. There are palmettes on either side of the neck: red-figure on the obverse, black on the reverse. Bands of wave-pattern and black tongues circle the shoulder. Below the tongues are scrolling tendrils: white and yellow on the obverse, black on the reverse. There are large fan-palmettes below each handle. Scrolling tendrils and palmettes frame both pictures, and a ground-line of wave-pattern circles the lower body. Side A: The large head of a woman fills the porch of a naiskos, a tomb in the shape of a “little temple.” The latter has Ionic columns and palmette akroterions. The podium is decorated with bands of white dots and “running S’s.” Both the woman and the naiskos are painted white. The woman has blonde hair and wears a necklace, earrings, and a hair-cloth (kekryphalos) with a long drawstring. Her head is drawn in three-quarter view, her eyes looking away from the viewer to her right. Side B: A large head of a woman faces to the right. There is no naiskos, and unlike the woman on the obverse, she is rendered in red-figure. She too wears a necklace, earrings, and an embroidered kekryphalos. In her black hair, where it emerges from the cloth, she wears a tiara with white projections. There are two rosettes in the field above her head and before her neck. |
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